UTI Mutual Fund, the country's oldest fund house, has attained an asset base of over Rs one lakh crore with about one crore investor accounts and is now targetting leadership positions across various segments.

GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals (GSK India) has said its greenfield manufacturing facility at Bengaluru, having an installed capacity of over 9 billion tablets and capsules per year, will be operational by 2017.

Giving a communal colour to petty skirmishes between two communities by vested interests will be dealt with stern hands, Director General of UP Police Jagmohan Yadav said today, adding that National Security Act (NSA) would be invoked and heavy penalties levied in such cases.

Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) will hold a meeting with senior Maharashtra government officials this week to discuss on the format of the fresh draft of the Development Plan (DP) 2034, a senior civic body official said.

Goa Police Crime Branch have decoded several messages relating to bribe demands by the head of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) water project in the state during the Louis Berger bribery case probe.

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47-year-old Manish Baradia, who has been Modi's visual executor since 2001 called a meeting in Delhi last week, inviting a group of producers who would help add muscle to the Prime Minister's audio-visual campaign for the Bihar elections

Investigations into the Gurdaspur terror attack have revealed that the ultras were wearing ?made in Pakistan? gloves. Also, the origin of a seized night vision device (NVD), a ?US government property?, points towards an Afghanistan link.

A Supreme Court panel has given a clean chit to a Madhya Pradesh High Court judge who was accused of sexually harassing a former woman Additional District and Sessions Judge (ADSJ), saying there was no corroborative evidence to support the allegations.

Indian soldiers, who had gone on a "revenge" operation on Manipur border last month, came back unhurt, though some of them complained of being attacked by leeches in the jungle areas, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar has said.

The excessive rain for the past two days coupled with high tide and water released from Jharkhand and Odisha has rendered the flood situation in West Bengal "beyond control", Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today said.

"Drawings" was one of the code words for bribe in the controversial Louis Berger bribery case used by former Congress ministers in Goa to allegedly get kickbacks, investigators tracking the case have stated.

In the wake of an extension of Jammu bandh by the AIIMS Coordination Committee, section 144 of CrPC has been imposed here by the authorities, prohibiting assembly of more than four people at any place.

Union Minister Prakash Javadekar today said holding the Parliament to ransom was a "contempt of democracy" and blamed Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi for the logjam during the ongoing monsoon session.

Amid protests and shutdown to demand setting up of an AIIMS in Jammu, state health minister Chowdhary Lal Singh today said AIIMS will be set up at both here and Kashmir and will be provided with same facilities.

In a flip-flop,Congress government in Arunachal Pradesh today said it opposes the contentious land bill of BJP-led central government and backs the UPA law, barely a month after it had in a letter to Rural Development Ministry found fault with the 2013 Act and suggested that it be "revisited".

The Andhra Pradesh Capital Region Development Authority's (CRDA) advisory committee has asked for an action plan to expedite construction of the proposed new state capital, it was officially announced here today.

Supporting death penalty for terrorists, former CBI Director Joginder Singh has accused Yakub Memon, hanged for his role in the 1993 Mumbai blasts, and his supporters of misusing India's liberal laws and called for an overhaul of anti-terror legislations.

Drawing inspiration from former President A P J Abul Kalam's message to work an extra day on his death instead of declaring holiday, a section of employees of a few government offices in Kerala worked on Sunday today as a mark of respect to the late visionary.

Law officers working under the Advocate General should not have any conflict with the judiciary, but adopt a positive attitude towards criticism against their style of functioning and move forward, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said here today.

Despite the monsoon session of Parliament being a near washout so far, the government hopes to resolve the impasse at an all-party meeting tomorrow to pave the way for discussion on issues raised by the opposition, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Venkaiah Naidu said today.

Pakistan Prime Minister's Adviser on National Security and Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz today said he has received a proposal from India for a meeting between National Security Advisors of the two countries on August 23-24 in New Delhi.

Union Minister Venkaiah Naidu today expressed disappointment over few people trying to politicise issues of death sentence and terrorism and said it would be "a dis-service to nation" by sympathising with Yakub Memon, who was recently hanged in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case.

Terming the Louis Berger bribery case as just the "tip of the iceberg", Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar has said the Centre will extend all possible assistance to expose the "scams" during Congress rule in Goa.

In a relief to Mumbai police commissioner Rakesh Maria, the Bombay High Court has quashed an order of Maharashtra Administrative Tribunal imposing a cost of Rs 20,000 on him for failing to comply with its order.

Former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee today described as "very agonising" the frequent disruptions of Parliament and lamented the "inadequacy" of the position of the presiding officer who is unable to run the House because of circumstances beyond his control.

The BJP's reported moves to expand its base in Kerala with support from a community outfit will not pay any dividend as people of the state are still reluctant to accept "divisive political ideology", says Chief Minister Oommen Chandy.

Janata Dal (United) today demanded that the Home Ministry direct the Puducherry government to clamp prohibition in the union territory as the 'wet law' now in force was responsible for setback in the health of the youth and law and order problems.

Observing that "unregulated mining cannot be permitted", the National Green Tribunal has extended the time for transportation of extracted coal in Meghalaya till November 30 and fixed September 30 as the last date for payment of royalty.

Unfazed by criticism, former union minister Shashi Tharoor today opposed death penalty even for terrorists saying it was an "obsolete practice" and they should instead be put behind bars for the rest of their lives without parole.

Jammu witnessed a shutdown for the third consecutive day today as part of agitation being carried out by an amalgam of over 70 organisations to press for setting up an AIIMS in this region of the state.

India and Israel are likely to test fire this month the long-range surface-to-air Barak 8 missile, jointly developed by the two countries, which can act as a potent shield against incoming missiles, aircraft and drones.

Shashi Tharoor is not being "isolated" in Congress and he is part and parcel of the party, Kerala Home Minister Ramesh Chennithala said today, after the former Union minister wrote to party president stating that his services have "neither been seen nor appreciated".

With three crore cases pending in courts, the government may consider changes in legal procedure to make it mandatory for a litigant to issue a notice to the opposite party before initiating formal proceedings to enable them explore the possibility of a pre-litigation settlement.

The Maharashtra government's cap on the weight of school bags carried by students, to be 10 percent of their body weight, aims at addressing the health hazards of carrying heavy bags to school regularly.

Bharat Forge CMD Babasaheb Kalyani today expressed confidence that the manufacturing sector will show significant improvement after Diwali and said that 'Make In India' drive is showing results on the ground.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav today wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi requesting him to set up the head office of Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) in Lucknow.

With several incidents of murder of senior citizens reported in the city in recent times, Kolkata police aims to broad base the 'Project Pranam' initiative to bring more elderly people under its safety cover.

Responding to an appeal by indigent and ailing Tamil folk singer-cum-actress Paravai Muniamma, AIADMK supremo and Tamil Nadu Chief Minsiter Jayalalithaa today announced an assistance of Rs six lakh and a monthly payout of Rs 6,000 to her from a party-run trust.

In the wake of alleged negligence in treatment that led to amputation of a leg of a 11-year-old boy, the Delhi Medical Council today suspended registration certificates of four resident doctors - two each of Hindu Rao and Safdarjang Hospital - for a month.

As its core tobacco business faces pressure, ITC chief Y C Deveshwar yesterday accused some 'NGOs' of acting as agents of foreign firms and helping them smuggle international cigarette brands 'duty-free' while steep taxes are hurting the domestic industry.

Thousands of pilgrims visited 'Mudiya Poono' fair in Goverdhan area here today.The Mathura district administration has extended the fair by two days till Monday in view of unprecedented rush of pilgrims.

Upping the ante ahead of Monday's all-party meeting convened by the government, Congress today insisted that the issue of action against three top BJP leaders should be on the agenda if the deadlock in Parliament is to be broken.

Several parents in Goa yesterday blocked the main roads and bridges across the state and allegedly pelted some buses with stones while demanding English to be made the medium of instruction and government grants for every academic year.

Virtually reduced to a garbage carrier in the face of rampant pollution, the Vaigai river, once the root for the Pandia culture and history of sociology of Pandia Kingdom, is to be completely renovated.

In a bid to strike a balance among different regions of the state, Odisha government today announced its decision to set up the proposed Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) at Berhampur in Ganjam district of South Odisha.

Stating that the law and order situation in Delhi is "deteriorating at an alarming rate", new Delhi Commission for Women chief Swati Maliwal today asked Delhi Police Commissioner B S Bassi to furnish information about "increasing" complaints of crimes against women.

A delegation led by the Commander-in-Chief of Myanmar Defence Services today visited the Indian Army's Eastern Command as the two sides seek to "enhance" military cooperation in the wake of the Manipur ambush recently by Naga militants.

Days after terror struck Dina Nagar in Gurdaspur, Punjab police has asked residents of adjoining border district of Pathankot to hold "community policing" on a regular basis to prevent repeat of such incident.

At the stroke of Friday mid-night, 51,000 stateless people of India and Bangladesh attained freedom when the two countries ended more than six decades of their lingering wait for citizenship by exchanging 162 adversely-held enclaves between them.

For the first time ever, the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) today hosted an Indian Army delegation in the Daulat Beg Oldie (DBO) area along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh sector of Jammu and Kashmir.

With the storage level at Mettur Dam reaching comfortable levels, Tamil Nadu government yesterday announced releasing water for the kuruvai (short-term) crops covering 12 lakh acres in the Cauvery delta region.

Union Minister Pon Radhakrishnan today said the Tamil Nadu Government should take steps to declare total prohibition in the state as a mark of respect to Gandhian Sasi Perumal, who fought for the cause for the past 30 years and died during one of his protests.

BJP today fired yet another salvo at Congress over the issue of 'Hindu terrorism' as it raked up reported comments of Rahul Gandhi in 2010 when he had said radicalised Hindu groups might be bigger threat than the local support for terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba.

CPI(M) today stood by BJP leader Rupa Ganguly, who was allegedly heckled while distributing relief materials to flood-affected villagers, saying the Opposition also had the right to pitch in to help affected people.

Refusing to relent, Uttar Pradesh government has sent the same list of five names to Raj Bhawan for nomination to the Legislative Council under the nominated members category which the governor had returned seeking more information.

Police resorted to cane-charge and teargas firing to disperse pro-AIIMS protesters at three places amid clashes in Jammu city, where a bandh was observed for second consecutive day today over the demand for establishment of AIIMS in the region.

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed today condemned the attack on a police party in Pattan area of north Kashmir's Baramulla district which left three cops injured and visited them at a hospital here.

Aditya Thackeray, Shiv Sena's youth wing leader, today met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and discussed plans on how the Digital India campaign could be given a boost by his pet-project of giving tablet PCs to students.

Keeping in mind the challenges posed by the "dramatic" transformation of higher education, Delhi Technological University has restructured its academic programmes and curriculum to meet global demands, its Vice Chancellor Pradeep Kumar said today.

BJP MP Sakshi Maharaj today dubbed as "anti-national" those mourning the death of 1993 Mumbai serial blasts convict Yakub Memon and said that people who have no faith in the Constitution should go to Pakistan.

Scores of Youth Congress workers today protested here against the Pakistan government over the Gurdaspur terror attacks and nuclear scientist A Q Khan's "disgraceful" comments on former President A P J Abdul Kalam.

Ahead of an all-party meet convened by the government to break the Parliament logjam, CPI(M) today blamed the BJP-led government for disrupting the House, accusing it of trying to escape from accountability behind the veil of conducting a 'debate for debate's sake'.

A controversial list of cuss words that was circulated by the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) soon after Pahlaj Nihalani took over as its chairperson has been withdrawn after a majority of members voted against it.

The Comptroller and General (CAG) has rapped the Zilla Parishads in Maharashtra for taking up minor irrigation works without preparing any long-term district wise master plans, resulting in significant time and cost overrun.

The Cyberabad police here has sought cooperation of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to keep tab on Rohingya Muslim refugees who have been living in the city after fleeing from Myanmar.

Government is working on restoring with "suitable modifications" the controversial section 66A of IT Act which provided for arrest of people for posting offensive content online and was struck down by the Supreme Court in March.

Describing former President A P J Abdul Kalam as a "great statesman", UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said that the outpouring of grief around the world following his death is a testament of the respect and inspiration he has garnered during and after his Presidency.

Greece's talks with its international creditors on a third bailout worth 85 billion euros (USD 93 billion) shifted into a higher gear today, with lead negotiators from the European Union and International Monetary Fund meeting key ministers in Athens.

The Bombay High Court today reserved its order till August 3 on a petition filed by Nestle India against orders of Food Safety Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) and Food and Drugs Administration of Maharashtra banning Maggi as it contained lead beyond permissible limit.

Janata Parivaar is trying to make a comeback in national politics with six of the breakaway factions namely Mulayam's Samajwadi Party, Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal (United), Lalu's Rashtriya Janata Dal, Deve Gowda's Janata Dal (Secular), Chautala's Indian National Lok Dal and late Chandrasekhar's Samajwadi Janata Party forming a block to fight elections in the near future.

With the gap in human organs demand and supply increasing year on year, the local chapters of CII and Yi have joined hands with 12 major hospitals here to create awareness on the need for organ donation among the public in a sustained but conspicuous manner.

The Western Railway will run two trips of a fully reserved special train, for which fares chargeable will be inclusive of special charges, for the convenience of passengers on the occasion of the Velankanni festival.

World renowned Economist David D Friedman told Niti Central that people will gain if instead of paying taxes to the government for producing and enforcing law, they hire private law enforcement agencies.

Diversified group ITC has set a target of garnering a revenue of Rs 1 lakh crore by 2030 from its FMCG business, as it looks to increase presence in the segment, company's chairman Y C Deveshwar said today.

In a controversial move, gram panchayat presidents in a Kerala district have adopted a resolution proposing that the canines be "exported" to South Korea, China and the northeast, to counter the rising menace of stray dogs.

An NGO's plea against installation of reverse osmosis (RO) water purifiers in residential societies and villages on the ground that it leads to wastage of water has prompted National Green Tribunal to seek response from the Centre.